Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared?
by nradov on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:02PM
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No we don't want to go back, but there is a middle ground. The employer can loan workers the money to pay for training, and then forgive the loan after the worker completes a year or two on the job. That's how my former employer funded part of my graduate school tuition and it seemed completely fair to me.
Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared?
by NeutronBoy on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:01PM
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It's fairly common. Employers are often more explicit - they'll pay for the training, but if you leave the organisation with 6 months-1 year of completion of training then you have to pay them back for it.
Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared?
by yummyfajitas on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:35PM
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I have no particular objection to schemes like this, though I'd certainly be wary of offering such a scheme as an employer. I'd be worried about some rabble rouser spinning it to the media as indentured servitude.
Re:How Does America “Reshore” Skills That Have Disappeared?
by jbotttt on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:54PM
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Implying the past is worse and the future better is a misstep[0].
As others have been saying the problem goes away when you have viable careers in X. At some point it will better value to train someone, though I imagine that point is further away then training yourself.
Historical labor force norms made it more difficult to change jobs which mitigated this problem. In a sense the employer owned the worker and training made sense. Workers now own themselves, so it's up to the worker to invest in their own training.
Do we really want to go back to the older era?